France’s CAC 40 dipped nearly 0.2% to 6,374.45 in early trading, while Germany’s DAX fell 0.2% to 15,375.92.
The market’s most anticipated economic data of each month, it showed employers added just 266,000 jobs in April, far fewer than the 975,000 jobs that economists were expecting.
The Fed has been holding short-term rates at a record low and buying US$120 billion in bonds every month, helping drive the stock market’s rebound from its pandemic low in March 2020.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng slipped less than 0.1% to 28,595.66, while the Shanghai Composite added 0.3% to 3,427.99.
Many will be from countries where people have been vaccinated, while the rollout has been extremely slow in Japan, with about 3% of the population inoculated so far.
On Friday, the S&P 500 index rose 0.7% to 4,232.60, its third straight gain, and topping the previous all-time high set last month.
crude added 43 cents to $65.33 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.